Projects

Over the course of the main podcast, Flourish and Elizabeth ran many surveys, from quick one-offs on a single platform to big projects that tried to capture a wide swath of fans. (Our largest saw more than 17,000 respondents!) In addition to our episodes and articles assessing the results, we published the raw data under a Creative Commons license—aka free for anyone to play with.

The Fanfiction & Source Material Mini-Survey

• We discuss the results in Episode 145.
• Read about the results and see some visualizations in our article “The Fic and the Source Material.”
• See the raw data (the sheet includes the questions we asked), shared under a CC BY 4.0 license.

The Fiction During Times of Crisis Mini-Survey

• We discuss the results in Episode 122.
• See the raw data (the sheet includes the questions we asked), shared under a CC BY 4.0 license.
• verity created an interactive visualization that allows you to explore the questions in detail.

The Shipping Survey

• What is shipping? We discuss the process of creating the survey in Episode 97, and the results of the survey in Episode 99.
• Flourish wrote an article analyzing shippers’ responses. verity wrote an article about their methodology around cleaning the data and creating a beautiful interactive visualization.
• See what questions we asked as well as the raw data, shared under a CC BY 4.0 license.

The Fanfiction Definitions Survey 

• How do you define “fanfiction”? What counts as fic—and what doesn’t? We discuss the survey in Episode 46 and the results in Episode 49. 
• Flourish wrote an article analyzing some of the results.
• You can also download the full results or the coded data set for the question “Please define fanfiction”; both are shared under a CC BY 2.0 license.

The Fandom Tropes Survey

• What are fans’ favorite fic tropes? We discuss the survey in Episode 34.  
• We published a detailed summary of the results, and we also wrote about what tropes weren’t included.
• See what questions we asked and download the full results (warning: large spreadsheet), shared under a CC BY 2.0 license.
• People also sent in “exception fics”: stories that feature tropes they normally wouldn’t read, but that are so good that they overcome their hesitation.

Some Tiny Polls & Surveys

• Do you use the term “alpha reader”?
• How do you find good fanfic?
• 100% complete canonical knowledge of a story-world vs. the power to veto a plot point in the next installment?
• How do you say fandom words in languages other than English?
• Can you be in more than one fandom at once? How many fandoms are you currently in? What does being ”in” a fandom mean to you?
• What little things make you feel immersed in your favorite worlds / do you stealth cosplay?